To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.
For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.